Posted on 10/05/2021 1:16:26 PM PDT by rktman
A new Rasmussen Reports survey revealed that only 25% of American adults believe electric cars are practical.
The survey also found that 52% of Americans think electric cars are not practical, and another 23% said they were not sure.
Seven years ago, a similar survey found that only 19% of Americans believed electric cars are practical.
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Earth worshipers
Until they have a car that charges for 300+ miles within 10-15 minutes I don’t think there is an advantage for a car when airliners are going to prevent the ‘wrong’ Americans from boarding planes to get across the USA.
I took a serious look at a Telsa. But in the end, it’s just too costly.
I just don't in my situation find them actually viable.
I was reading some of the cautions of driving EVs and I'm not sure how you can drive something that is not reliable. They don't work well in the cold or uphills which severely limits their range. Better to have a hybrid which has a backup of gasoline.
I have desire to drive around in an electrical appliance.
Most believe polls are no longer practical....
Electric cars probably work well for some people. For others of us, they don’t.
If electric charging stations become as common as gas stations, and the cost of electric cars comes way down, that would greatly encourage more to buy electric cars.
Er no desire...☺
just wait until the Electric Grid goes down...... It will happen.
Alternate headline.
75% of American public know electric cares are not practical.
It seems that hybrids aren’t being pushed nearly as much as electric cars.
Hybrids seem like a great vehicle to me. Gas mileage is excellent.
Electric vehicles ‘might’ become practical if the environmentalists allow the additional electrical production to support the electric vehicles.
EVs are neat virtue singling devices for the wealthy, but not really a practical, cost effect, replacement for the internal combustion engine for almost everyone else.
Like mass transit, Government subsides for this EV fetish will be a Government budgetary sink hole for the rest of our lives
Hasn’t been that long since we had concerns about our aging and inadequate electric grid. Since then, the biggest change has been taking coal plants offline. As far as I know, the modest capacity provided by “sustainable” sources doesn’t cover the lost capacity.
As long as I’m located 35 miles from my office and tow a travel trailer 5000 miles every year for vacations I have no use for the current generation of EVs.
Right. They are basically local town cars.
Currently impossible to tow my boat 250 miles to the cabin. It would take me 2 days instead of the current 5 hours.
You bring up an excellent point! This “vaccine passport” crapola could certainly shift car travel demands more toward the capabilities of the internal combustion engine, or hybrid.
I love going up to one of those smug electric car owners and ask them how they like their coal burner car? I get an indignant “its electric”. Whereby I say, “where do you get that electricity around these parts? From coal burning electricity plants.” Get the dumb deer in the headlight look...dumbasses.
We can’t produce enough electricity to charge and run all those things at this point.
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